Far from the Madding Crowd Chapter L

In which the bustling Greenhill sheep fair unfolds with its vivid procession of flocks and folk, and Sergeant Troy, disguised as a performer in a travelling show, unexpectedly spies his wife Bathsheba in a moment of quiet intimacy with another man. The day's lively commerce and spectacle are shadowed by Troy’s conflicted emotions and a furtive intrigue involving a threatening letter, culminating in a secret parley under the autumn dusk.